Kevin Roozen's Naming What We Know

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Writing is a mirror through which readers can watch any writer's mind. In fact, when I started thinking of how I should begin writing this post, this expression crossed my mind. I spend time remembering and searching who said this phrase? but unfortunately, I could not find any clue neither in English nor in Arabic. At this moment, I made sure that I must have heard or read it somewhere so, it is saved in my unconscious. The information that writers’ knowledge depends on their previous experiences, is repeated a lot in Naming What We Know and I read it recently in the concept of Texts get their meaning from other texts. Writing is influenced by textual material and the optical units like images as what Kevin Roozen stated " Texts even rely upon a range of non-written texts, readers …show more content…

Charlotte worked as a teacher and Jane did as well. Those and other similarities found in the novel, point to how writing acts as a mirror used by the audience. Jane Eyre captured Charlotte’s life. The author did not just symbolize her character in Jane Eyre, but she also used this novel to express her needs. Kevin Roozen mentioned this concept " Through the writing, we do, we claim, challenge, perhaps even contest and resist our alignment with the beliefs, interests, and values of the communities with which we engage”.51 She portrayed an issue that was aggressive in that era. In the novel, Charlotte demonstrated the feminism (a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women that are equal to those of men. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.). During Victorian age in which Charlotte lived, men never treated women anything but a machine. Women should stay at home and take care of her husband and

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